Genetic and environmental influences on conduct and antisocial personality problems in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Conduct problems in children and adolescents can predict antisocial personality disorder and related problems, such as crime and conviction. We sought an explanation for such predictions by performing a genetic longitudinal analysis. We estimated the effects of genetic, shared environmental, and unique environmental factors on variation in conduct problems measured at childhood and adolescence and antisocial personality problems measured at adulthood and on the covariation across ages. We also tested whether these estimates differed by sex. Longitudinal data were collected in the Netherlands Twin Register over a period of 27 years. Age appropriate and comparable measures of conduct and antisocial personality problems, assessed with the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment, were

SUBMITTER: Wesseldijk LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6133103 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature